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The Intidhar like Salman Farsi
Salman was in Persia, he had an Intidhar.
He was in the monastery. He became a monk he studied
Christianity. Think about it. Salman. The Persian. The famous Persian
who was known by the Holy Prophet as Salman Men Ahlul Bayt.Salman is like Ahlul Bayt.
Salman whose father was a pagan. Was a fire worshiper.
His father wanted to kill him. He runs away from his father. His Intidhar.
He's going towards this spirit.
This Intidhar is in us... and Salman leaves his father,
escapes, enters a monastery. 10 years!
Intidhar! He studies the books - he says some thing's lacking.
I've done everything I need and missing the point.
It's not striking my love for the
the God that I want to worship. I don't see it here.
And I'm not saying they were ... these were... some of them were
of course you know Ahlul Ketaab - the real ones the ones that believed in the oneness of Allah.
But the Intidhar. The Prophet was already alive.
He is already in Medina. He's feeling.
He doesn't know the prophet is there. He doesn't even know he exists - and then look at the destiny!
Wa haye lana men amrena rashida! Make my
decree good Oh Allah! Salman must have prayed that.
Must have! That Salman is taken to Medina
as a slave.
He is a prisoner working for the Bani Israel and he's being whipped everyday.
13 years! And the Prophet is suffering in Makkah.
He is suffering in Madina. Okay.
and he starts to hear from the grape vine.
There is a man calling himself the Prophet,
and he's already agitated from the point in the sense that
he's eager to go and meet. They say he was on a tree
and his owner was speaking that this Prophet of the Muslims has come to Medina
now
and now he has stationed himself in Medina and they were talking about
how unhappy they are of the presence of this man. Salman could not contain
himself.
He jumps from the tree comes down and asks
the owner - he say's - he gets - he cannot stop himself. The owner slaps him.
He says go back to work.
Salman finds a way. That while he's given a chore to go and
perform a duty as a slave he detours
in that chore and he goes and he says I
reached a tent. He says I saw light
coming out of the tent.
I entered the tent and I saw the face
of the Holy Prophet, and he says I
reached my destiny. I reached it!
That Intidhar!
is in us here today for Imam Mahdi (a) is
present and I always used to wonder
how will the world
know about Islam? How will Imam come? What is the situation?
These tears by the way they come
not as a show to anybody.
It It's when you have a
realization, basic realization, I have a long way to improve myself.
Just a basic realization that this world
is illusionary.
There is no stability
but with Allah and His Messenger and His Ahlul Bayt.
There's nothing. You own the homes you want. Own all the money you want.
Or all the children you have! It will all go.
The only value - Allah says wal baaghiyaatos salehaat kheyron ende rabbika thawabaan
wa kheyron amal. The best are your deeds.
How am I going to hold on to these deeds if I don't hold on to the Rope of Allah?
My Imam!